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Re: [TSVN] SVN flushing the repository

From: Simon Large <slarge_at_slarge.plus.com>
Date: 2005-04-27 17:07:53 CEST

Zeger.Kruijswijk wrote:
> From the manual i can't find anywhere information about how remove
> earlier revision that are definitely not anylonger needed. Some
> contain huge SQL files that are outdated and we want to get rid of
> them.
> can you inform us how to do this?

That is because you can't delete items from the repository. If you could
do that you wouldn't have a revision control system, because you could
not go back and recreate an old version.

There is a brief note about why you can't really undo a revision here:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s04.html#svn-ch-4-sect-4.2

You need to scroll down a few lines ...

Simon

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